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Professor Weidong Zhou obtained his BS and ME degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He obtained his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After graduation, he worked at CIENA Corporation on active photonic devices and integrated systems for optical fiber communication systems. He is currently a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Since joining UTA, Dr. Zhou has carried out over 40 federally-funded projects, from the Department of Defense (AFOSR, AFRL, ARO, ONR, JTO, DARPA), National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Health (NIH), etc. Total funding support level exceeds $24 million for all the projects involved. As single PI or leading PI, the total award exceeds $10 million since 2005. He has also engaged in research commercialization efforts, with multiple million DoD/NSF SBIR/STTR Phase I/II awards. Dr. Zhou has authored and co-authored over 350 journal publications and conference presentations, including ~ 140 invited conference talks and seminar talks. He have 6 issued US patents with a few more pending. He also published one book and 5 book chapters. Dr. Zhou and his group have made significant contributions in the areas of photonic crystal laser scaling for energy efficient integrated photonics and micro transfer printing of semiconductor nanomembranes for heterogeneous integration of compound semiconductor materials with silicon, for integrated silicon photonics and flexible optoelectronics. The work has been published in very high impact factor journals such as Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Nature Bioengineering, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, etc.
Dr. Zhou is a fellow of SPIE (The International Society for Optics and Photonics) and a fellow of OSA (The Optical Society), a senior member of IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), and a member of APS (American Physical Society), MRS (Materials Research Society), and AAAS (The American Association for the Advancement of Science). He is also very active in professional societies, serving as general conference chairs or committee chairs as well as in journal editorial boards. Dr. Zhou's major awards include UTA Academy of Distinguished Scholars (2016), UTA Outstanding Research Achievement or Creative Accomplishment Award (2015), UTA College of Engineering Excellence in Research Award (2013), UTA College of Engineering Excellent Research Record Awards (2007, 2008), Univ. of Michigan Rackham Predoctoral Fellow award (2000-2001), IEEE/LEOS (Photonics) Society Graduate Student Fellowship award (2000), Tsinghua University Outstanding Graduate Award (Gold medal, 1993), Outstanding ("San-Hao") Student of Beijing City (1992), etc.